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IDLING: Lingering Iconography
Miran Park | Curator at Hakgojae Gallery

A desolate scene unfolds. Space engulfs figure. The body’s form becomes entangled with objects or dissipates into the background. Symbolic icons continuously appear on the low saturated, densely depicted picture screen. It is a fragment of the disassembled scene of reality. Lee Dong Hyuk reconstructs scenes to refine his thought; ideas materialize. The subject that penetrates his oeuvre is doubt towards belief, a story about religious blind faith and customs of a group society. To achieve a new perspective, one must …